MATERIAL

Wood and its related forms remain a versatile material for makers to draw from and reshape. Students at CCA are thinking about how to make with this material in sustainable and novel ways and with inspiration from their own lives. Following are how the CCA community transforms wood across diverse practices and how they carry their imagination into reality.

Delicate Moments In Time

Artist and designer Katie Gong joined CCA as the Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wood Arts for the fall 2022 semester. Trained as a woodworker and painter, she has developed a signature steam-bending practice where she twists and forms wood poles into riveting sculptural pieces. She says, “The story I portray in my work is that it is about a frozen moment in time where something that is rigid can become flexible and then again return to rigid. So my sculptures are really about possibility and transformation.”